Drug Addiction Stories & Info

It’s not easy to make a new start after addiction to drugs, and Matt was doing it hard. He’d been on methadone a couple of months and it was beginning to get him down.

 At first it had seemed like the answer, the answer to a prayer – to get your drugs free from the clinic and not have to worry about supply – but that as it turned out is the problem, at least it was for Matt. He was constantly frustrated, feeling strung out – but the doctor would not increase his dose.

True enough the doctor had adjusted the dose before, and now he was saying that it was about time that Matt got adjusted to the dose he was getting, and would not discuss it any further.

 Matt couldn’t relax, he felt unsettled, felt edgy all the time. He was starting to think he’d made a mistake getting into this methadone program – he wanted to break out and get really ripped – stay high for a week.

 His parents felt relaxed for the first time in years – their son was on the methadone program. Sure, occasionally he looked rough, failed to respond to conversation, but they had been warned that there would be times when methdone would not be enough to stop the heroin cravings, and that as a family they must bear it.

Matt was encouraged to take a course, to catch him up for entry into the workforce. Matt had dropped out of school, not studied at all, failed to sit for any exams. He looked at the courses, but none of them looked very interesting to Matt.

 Matt would have been happy to work for the council, attending to the parks and gardens, but his parents told him it was a dead end job – he needed to do the catch up course. Matt didn’t know how to tell them that study wasn’t his thing.

One morning at breakfast Dad asked Matt had he thought any more about the course, Matt said he didn’t want to study, he wanted to work in the parks, get a bobcat ticket, use a front end loader, get some exercise and work in the sun.

His mother said nothing at all and looked expectantly at Matt’s father, who simply said son, you already know my view on that. As you are on this methadone program, I’ll give you some more time to reconsider the course.

Matt felt like a pit in his stomach had opened up, felt like he was crying inside, his throat was all choked up. Matt felt compacted, compressed -  by what, he didn’t know.

 But all that Matt’s Dad saw was Matt’s rigid face, his fixed stare that looked towards the front door of the house, at the end of the hall.

 Matt stood up, he wanted some space, he wanted to feel free. Once out the front door, it was less than an hour before he’d contacted one of his mates from his heroin  days and got himself a fix. Once the effects of that wore off Matt fell into a heap. He stretched out on his bed at home. He simply wanted to die.

 Later that night Matt was prowling the house, feeling like a tiger in captivity, didn’t want to go out because he knew that if he went out, he would end up doing heroin. And something inside him said no.

 He got connected to internet – looking for a video – a song, anything to distract himself from thinking about the drugs.

And so by chance he googled up video gallery heroin – and on the page some words rivetted his attention -

                          a 12 year heroin addict – over the years, he got hooke……

Marc Murphy it was about, a musician, that Matt had never heard of .……but, he had been a heroin addict for 12 years  – what had happened to him?

Matt expected it would be an overdose death – that was the usual fate of artists and musicians that got addicted to drugs. Look at Michael Jackson.  Matt was in that frame of mind that truely, he was expecting and wanting to read a really powerful story about an addict who ended up dead.

Seeing the item, in some strange way brought a release of tension, a sort of satisfaction – Matt wanted to read about heroin, find out what had happened to Marc, so he opened it up.

Matt couldn’t relate to what he saw – a young lad just like him – no dead frontman from a band that he had never heard of, but a young lad who sounded just like him.    

 Heroin……Methadone…….What he was given added more to the problem………. Narconon doesn’t use other drugs – to get people off drugs.

Yeah Narconon Matt thought.  What the hell was Narconon anyway, that this Marc had used.

Matt was still glued to the computer as birds began to sing, and for the first time in years, he felt inwardly relaxed.

He waited til breakfast, sat down at the table, said Dad I’ve got something to say to you – it’s about a drug program I found - it can get me off heroin, methadone, alcohol – off to a new start.

 Well, I don’t know, said his father – we’ve got you on this methadone program that seems to be working out fine… Matt stood up, walked round the table, took his father by the shoulders – said stand up and come to my room – I will show you, on the computer.

see video 

 Matt is now clean, in a sort of way – he’s completely free of drugs – but his mother complains, with a big smile on her face about the aroma of diesel and cow manure that she has to wash out of his work clothes.

The following is an addiction story about a regular dad who gets hooked on Oxy. This one is a fictional story. Unfortunately,  it is based on real life events and there is currently too many people who live similar nightmares, and their stories are not always ending  as good as this one. Here at Narconon Trois-Rivieres, we have helped many families over the years to make sure that their addiction stories have a happy ending.

Two years ago, I was a “normal” person. I had a job, and while it was nothing spectacular, it paid the bills. I also had friends, a home, and two relatively well adjusted teenaged kids. All of that changed the day I pulled a muscle in my shoulder and got a prescription for OxyContin from my doctor. I remember how much pain I was in and how the OxyContin eased that pain…but it brought on another in a much different way.

After about a week on the Oxy, I realized the pain was much better, but it didn’t stop me from continuing taking the drug. In fact, I went to the doctor for more, only I told him that the pain wasn’t better. When I did get more, I tried crushing the pill to experience that wonderful high that Oxy brings. Oh yeah, I was addicted to OxyContin and it was getting worse. Although I had never before injected any kind of drug, I had heard that injecting Oxy was a very nice high, so…I tried it. I felt so incredible! I felt relaxed and yet enlightened. My body and my mind both felt so immensely pleasant. The high didn’t last too long, but I thought it was worth it, so I continued doing it.

By that time, my kids began to grumble that I had changed and just “wasn’t myself”. My doctor gave me a lecture about how Oxy can be addictive and refused to prescribe anymore. So, I went to another doctor and got more OxyContin. My boss was on my case about missing a couple days of work, but to me, getting high was worth it. I didn’t hang out with my friends as much because they didn’t do Oxy, or any other drug for that matter. All that began to matter to me was Oxycontin, and getting high.

Several weeks went by, and I couldn’t get another prescription, so I began to scout out how to buy it without a prescription. It was surprisingly easy to get information. I hated paying so much even for a few pills, but I needed it. I stopped taking the kids places because I couldn’t afford it, what with missing a lot of work and needing the money for Oxy. I really stopped doing anything at all for or with them. If I did interact with them, it included a lot of accusing and yelling.

One day, while buying some Oxy, my “dealer”…ha, that sounds so melodramatic, because by this time, she was a friend. Anyway, she asked if I’d ever tried Heroin, since I enjoyed injecting Oxy. She offered me some, and I will never, EVER forget that high. It was similar to injecting Oxy, but yet had just a little bit more of a kick. Well, instead of buying OxyContin that day, I bought Heroin instead.

My kids, and my friends all began to gripe at me and complain, and I really hated being around them. I spent most of my time in my room shooting up. I lost my job, so I had to begin slowly withdrawing money from savings and the kids’ accounts to make ends meet and get my Heroin. My Mom and I were never close, so occasionally I would go over there and take some money out of her purse. She probably never even missed it (or so I thought).

In all of the time since I began doing heroin, I never even considered the feelings of my kids or my friends, and certainly not my mother. The kids and I moved, because I couldn’t pay rent on time. Food was pretty scarce, so they ate at friends’ houses a lot. Then came the day my Mother called and asked me out to lunch. I thought it was odd, but I was hungry! I didn’t know what was in store for me that day, but I found out.

She said she had to stop back at her house, so I followed her in. Sitting there in her living room were my kids, one of my friends, and some guy I’d never seen before. The look on their faces said it all, and my entire mood shifted. My kids had planned an intervention. That was to become the worst, and the best day of my life.

There were a lot of tears, and I could barely handle the emotion and the guilt I felt about everything they were saying. Oddly, I was also angry because it felt like they had betrayed me. Long story short—I agreed to go to rehab. Actually, one of the big reasons I did it was just to get out of there and to escape all of that emotion. That was the last day I did heroin. In actuality, that is just the beginning of the entire story, but that is a lot to happen in two short years, and all because I hurt my shoulder. In that time, I had had my first dose of Oxy, became addicted, and switched to heroin.

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To know more about the Narconon Rehab Program, please call 1-877-782-7409.

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With the increasing number of addicts hooked on prescription drugs that are being admitted for treatment at Narconon rehab centers across America, it has become obvious that the road to OxyContin addiction is short, and sorrowful.

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How Does this Happen?

People can become addicted to Oxy as a result of having sought and been offered prescription pain relief. According to the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, produced by US Government health departments, most people who become addicted to painkillers do so as a result of medications that are being issued to them by their doctor. It is a myth that oxy addiction only occurs with illicit or long term use – many people given OxyContin on prescription start to experience addictive symptoms within a few days of starting the prescription drug use. However, few prescribing doctors would appear to understand the nature of opioid addiction, or its symptoms and so fail to prevent addiction.

Some people who become addicted to OxyContin have been earlier prescribed addictive medications for pain relief. Until recently, the addictive properties of sedative and anti-inflammatory drugs, have been largely ignored and overlooked. Often symptoms of addiction and withdrawal have been wrongly attributed to the condition being treated, rather than being seen as a side effect of the drugs.

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Increasing the Doses

When people being treated for pain complain of increasing pain and distress, the response of many doctors has been to diagnose “chronic pain” – and to simply increase the frequency and the dose of the pain relieving medication. When drugs such as Tylenol, or Percocet fail to cover increasing pain and discomfort, the tendency has been to change the patient’s medication to prescription Oxy. Many people have therefore started taking this drug when they already have an unrecognized sedative or opioid dependency created by their use of an earlier medication. Swift, short and sorrowful is the road to addiction when people have come to OxyContin by this route.

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Emotional and Physical Pain

The problem of oxy addiction is both physical and mental – emotional pain is felt and experienced as physical pain in the body. Anything that blocks or impedes pain sensation in the body could also provide symptomatic relief from feeling emotional pain. Therefore, people who take a prescription drug and find that it removes their stress and tension will naturally be inclined to want to use the drug for that purpose – and very likely don’t want to admit it to other people. The injured individual easily fall prey to the OxyContin “high”, and unwittingly, willingly take the short, sorrowful road to addiction.

People with oxy addiction feel much the same as people with a heroin habit – lying, stealing, betrayal and deception all happen in due course when a person gets seriously into an addictive opioid habit. When drug addiction takes a hold it is damaging, destructive and precludes using more healthy options. Drug use destroys people and damages human relationships.

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Feeling of Guilt

Addiction often brings with it feelings of guilt and shame that more properly should be ascribed to those who promote and encourage drug use in the community. Guiltiness does not allow people real freedom of choice between drug use and pain relief methods that are natural and pure – thus the down spiral of drug addiction.

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Natural Solutions

Talking about natural methods for pain relief to big pharma and some medical profession is somewhat akin to sprinkling a pack of demons and imps with a bottle of holy water. Indeed it is a worry that many who are entrusted by the community with providing the best in health care are so addicted to the use of drugs that it infects the wider community.

People traveling the sorrowful road of OxyContin addiction can branch off toward complete recovery. There is hope to achieve a drug-free and joyful life by getting proper help from a comprehensive and natural drug rehab program such as Narconon.

The Narconon detoxification and rehabilitation program has been helping people to truly and naturally recover from addiction for over 45 years. For more information about the Narconon solution, please call 1-877-782-7409.

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